Can you guys please stop quoting the OP or huge blocks of text when you're only making a short post.  It's really fucking annoying.

Sorry this guy got scammed, but this is another case of someone not using escrow and doing things in absolutely the wrong way.  Don't deal with people you don't know unless you use escrow, and don't trust people here based on rank or because they're a copper member or anything else.  Even high-ranked, green-trusted members have scammed, because accounts can be purchased in order to leverage the rank and trust of the bought account to do so.  You never know who you're dealing with.